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The Trial

NewBeginnerCardCommunicationPartyRoleplaying
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30 €€25 at the fair
5–1020–40mHall 5 · 5J400

Mechanisms

  • Alliances
  • Communication Limits
  • Deduction
  • Hidden Roles
  • Lose a Turn
  • Negotiation
  • Once-Per-Game Abilities
  • Team-Based Game
Release
10/2026
Publisher
Dream Alley Games
Designers
Abdulaziz Aljazzaf, Mohammad Sanasiri
Languages
English
Age
8+
Illustrators
Dana Altattan

The Trial is a social deduction game with secret identities. Players are either on the good side or bad side. You all are in a court trying to support your case by putting either good or bad evidence in the case file. After each round, if the number of the good evidence cards inside the file is more than the bad evidence cards, the good side players will win the round, and vice versa. After 5 rounds whichever team has won the most rounds will win the game, but watch out, since the judge can stop any player from playing for 1 round if he suspected you to be with the bad team!